The Seers

With echoes of Zora Neale Hurston and Clarice Lispector, Sulaiman Addonia turns from the broader immigration narrative...
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The Seers by Addonia, Sulaiman

The Seers

$18.00

The Seers

$18.00
Author: Sulaiman Addonia
Format: Paperback
Language: English
With echoes of Zora Neale Hurston and Clarice Lispector, Sulaiman Addonia turns from the broader immigration narrative of land and nations to look closely at the erotic and intimate lives of asylum seekers.

Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, The Seers chronicles the first weeks of a young Eritrean refugee in London. As Hannah grapples with her own agency in a strange country, her sexual encounters become an unapologetic expression of self--a defiant cry against the endless bureaucracy of immigration.

In a single, gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between past and present to paint a surreal and sensual portrait of a life being burned up in search of refuge. For Hannah, caught between worlds in the UK asylum system, the West is both savior and abuser, seeking always to shape her, but never succeeding in suppressing her voice.

Author: Sulaiman Addonia
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.11h x 5.43w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781566897211


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/24/2025
Booklist 03/01/2025 pg. 53

About the Author
Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. He spent his early life in a refugee camp and went on to earn an MA from the University of London. His first novel, The Consequences of Love (Chatto & Windus, 2008), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and translated into more than 20 languages. His second novel, Silence Is My Mother Tongue (Indigo Press, 2019; Graywolf Press, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards. Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile.

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